Massive winter storm leaves deaths, blackouts and chaos

Perilously cold temperatures threatened millions of Americans on Monday in the wake of a sprawling winter storm that left at least 23 people dead as it knocked out power and paralysed transportation.

- 

A frigid, life-threatening Arctic air mass could delay recovery as municipalities from New Mexico to Maine tried to dig out after the storm, which dropped a vicious cocktail of heavy snow, wind, freezing rain, and sleet.

Forecasters warned that much of the northern half of the country will see temperatures that are “continuously below freezing through Feb 1,” and “record low temperatures tonight across the South are particularly dangerous in the wake of the weekend winter storm with many still without power,” the National Weather Service (NWS) said in an X post.